The City's Office of Equity and Human Rights has written a memo to provide guidance to Iowa City business owners regarding website accessibility as it relates to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

If you have questions regarding topics addressed in this memorandum or your rights and responsibilities in general, please call the office at 319-356-5015 or 319-356-5022.

Learn more about this subject by reading the full memo .

The Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center will be closed on Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, to replace the site's scale, which was originally installed in 1999. The Landfill will be open normal hours from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5 and Monday, Nov. 9, 2020.

For questions, please contact Resource Management Superintendent Jennifer Jordan at jennifer-jordan@iowa-city.org or 319-887-6160.

The Iowa City Fire Department is reminding residents to check smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detector batteries when changing clocks back one hour at the end of daylight saving time on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020.

Maintaining smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector batteries is one of the simplest, most effective ways to reduce injury and death caused by a fire.

As we “fall back,” the Fire Department recommends residents do the following:

Check the batteries in all smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors with removable batteries Check 10-year sealed smoke alarms or...

Small nonfarm businesses in 12 Iowa counties and a neighboring county in Illinois are now eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Garfield of SBA’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by the derecho in the following primary counties that occurred Aug. 10, 2020.

Primary Iowa counties: Grundy and Muscatine; Neighboring Iowa counties: Black Hawk, Butler, Cedar, Franklin, Hardin, ...